Alles Klar? Wait, "Klar" means "clear" in this sense. :p
Hellrot means "light red" (no question in my mind about this)
Sorry, you might get the sense that I'm being argumentative - not
the case at all. The photos in Parker are grey too and he
describes them as such.
Not being a completely fluent German speaker, one could take
"Hell" to mean "bright", as in unfinished metal - not painted,
anodized, blued, etc. I recall it looks like paint on mine but I
should re-examine it when I get home.
Any German speakers willing to stand and be counted?
Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
It means "clear" too, do you know the Rollei "Hellrot"
filter?
All the best
Carlos
--- Mike Kovacs <mskovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
"Hell" means "bright" - my German is a little rusty
but I was pretty fluent in the past.
Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
Mike, I have the original book in German and the
translation booklet into English by Gunther Richter
approved by Prochnow, I read both version and then
I
improve my bad German. The German word for "Grey"
is
"Grau", the German word for "clear" is "hell". In
the
German version, the camera description says "Helle
Stellräder...", the English version says " Bright
dials ...", the photographs shown in the Report I
are
B&W and look like this one:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050309131645/www.rolleiclub.com/
rollei/tlr/004.htm
And this color one is from John's Rollei
collection:
http://johnsrolleionlypage.homestead.com/files/
Rolleiflex_automat_1B_627701_Large.JPG
All the best
Carlos
--- Mike Kovacs <mskovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
I have seen many early Automats with grey wheels
in
person - many more on ebay. I have never seen one with clear
wheels.
Its definitely a textured paint finish on the grey inserts. Are
you
reading the original German text in Prochnow or a translation?
Can anybody else add some information to shed
light
on this?
Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
Mike, congratulations for your restoration work,
it
looks professional and the PC socket too.
Prochnow
shows a Rolleicord with the very rare Xenar
4.5/75
and
an adapted PC socket placed beside the taking
lens
lower part.
According your camera serial number it's an
Automat
III model for Prochnow and an Automat II for
Parker.
For Prochnow it would be an Automat III because
it
has
the Bayonet 1 for both lenses and no engraved
name
in
the viewfinder lens ring. According Prochnow
there
no
Automats with "gray" wheels, they are clear for
the
Automat I and II and black for the Automat III
and
then it's difficult to say if your camera wheels
are
discolored black wheels or darkened clear
wheels...
anyway it's always possible your camera suffered
some
parts change along the years.
As I wrote previously, your camera Carl Zeiss
Jena
serial number is for a lens manufactured on 1941
according the data and date that Prochnow
obtained
from Carl Zeiss archives, if the lens is original
it
onlu could be for an Automat III.-
All the best
Carlos
--- Mike Kovacs <mskovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
Carlos, I restored this camera to shooting
condition
myself. I don't own Prochnow, though I probably should!
The Compur Rapid shutter had what looked like a
factory parts PC synch conversion (nicely done) but the
synch terminal
was
some sort of non-standard connection located in that position
you
see. When I restored the camera, I replaced that terminal
with
a
locking PC socket taken from a junker Kiev 4 camera. So
from a
collectors standpoint its been modified, but its a
wonderful shooter for
the
days I'm in the mood for an uncoated Tessar look.
You can't see the cable release socket but this
camera has the button style release with the cable release
socket on
the
opposide side, behind where the lens hood is blocking.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mskovacs/pv/Rolleiflex/
PrewarAutomat1.jpg
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